Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2018
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Summary
In 2022, Professor Wen-chin Ouyang FBA was among 19 new ‘academicians’ to have been elected to the prestigious Academia Sinica, the national academy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Wen-chin is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London, and joins two other humanists in this year’s elections. The Academia Sinica was founded in China in 1928 to promote and undertake scholarly research in the sciences and humanities. After the ROC government moved to Taiwan in 1949, Academia Sinica was re-established in Taipei.
Current post
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS University of London
Publications
Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition
Wen-ching Ouyang - Published in 2013 by Edinburgh University Press
Poetics of Love in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition
Wen-chin Ouyang - Published in 2012 by Edinburgh University Press
Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition
Wen-chin Ouyang - Published in 1997 by Edinburgh University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Daniel Potts FBA
The archaeology and history of the Near East, particularly the Iranian world, from antiquity to the pre-modern era
Professor Henrietta Harrison FBA
The social and cultural history of China from the Qing through to the present, especially rural north China, links between transnational and local history, religion, diplomacy and revolution
Professor Derek Peterson FBA
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
